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ID: 2012847
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2012847
Record Type:
administrative
Mountain View (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 23 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.3833
decimal degrees
Long: 122 04 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.0667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on SW shore of San Franciso Bay; became shipping point for fruit & grain; Ames Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics located here in 1940.
Names:
Mountain View
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
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North and Central America
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United States
(nation) (
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California
(state) (
P
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Santa Clara
(county) (
P
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Mountain View
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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settled as a stage coach station in 1852
city (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
publishing center (
C
)
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of religious books when Pacific Press Publishing moved its plant here from Oakland in 1904
Sources and Contributors:
Mountain View..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 377
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6031980
Subject:
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[
VP
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 377
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6031980
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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